Who can stand someone shitting on their head??? Penguins can...

A few days ago, Xiaojun saw an animated picture on the Internet.

In the picture, an unknown object is ejected from the penguin's tail, and then directly hits another penguin behind it.

I was wondering if this was poop...

After reading the comments from netizens, it turns out to be true! This penguin is solving a physiological problem.

I can understand solving physiological problems, but it's not right to blame others.

And this penguin that was "baptized" by poop really is what is called "shit fell on my head."

According to the plot development, it should have rushed over and beat up the penguin, but it just shook its head silently.

And then... nothing happened. I don’t dare to ask the reason, and I don’t know.

However, after looking at this picture carefully, I seem to understand something.

Before it was caught in the poop rain, it seemed to have experienced it many times (as evidenced by the different fur color between it and the penguin next to it).

Ah...it turns out I've gotten used to it...

Well, I won’t say much about this topic. Today I will show you a different penguin - a penguin that poops stinky.

Before that, we need to understand something very expansive.

I don’t know if you have noticed that the two penguins are actually quite far apart.

The poop can also be "sprayed" onto another penguin's head.

I think if it is a human, it can only have such power in a "crackling" situation...

So why can penguins do this?

When an Adélie penguin defecates, it creates four times more pressure in its intestines than a human does, a study has shown.

When the penguin leans forward slightly, sticks out its butt, and lifts its tail feathers, the feces of a penguin about 60 cm tall can be projected 40 cm away.

This "feat" of the penguin successfully attracted the attention of scientists.

In 2005, German scientist Victor Mayer and Hungarian scientist Josef Goll won the Ig Nobel Prize in Fluid Mechanics for their paper "Pressure Created by Penguin Defecation - A Calculation Formula for Bird Defecation".

Not only does the poop spray far, but penguin poop is also colorful.

In Antarctica, different species of penguins have different diets at different times of the year.

When a penguin feeds mostly on krill and other crustaceans, its feces will be a distinct pink color.

Because krill contain a natural pigment called astaxanthin (which is dark pink), the poop naturally turns pink.

And the penguin population is huge and there are many of them, so we think that Antarctica is snow-white.

Actually it might be like this...

However, penguins do not simply "urinate and defecate anywhere".

In Antarctica, a place with very low temperature and ice and snow that stay on the ground all year round.

In order to protect their unhatched baby penguins from freezing into ice eggs, penguin poop comes in handy.

Because penguin feces, which have a slight body temperature, can accelerate the melting of ice and snow.

So during mating season, penguins gather together - to defecate and create a nursery area for their eggs.

Additionally, scientists are using satellites to detect changes in the color of penguin poop stains to identify and track penguin colonies, the BBC reported.

Because satellites cannot track penguins, the large area of ​​penguin feces that is different from the surrounding color can be observed by satellites.

Therefore, scientists also created penguin maps based on satellite images.

With the help of penguin maps, scientists have discovered a new, super-large Adélie penguin colony.

On a remote island in Antarctica called the Danger Inlands, few researchers visit the island because it is dangerous and difficult to reach.

(Image source: Google Maps)

Therefore, scientists never thought that the tiny penguins could reach this desolate place.

And the most terrifying thing is the number of penguins. There are 1.5 million Adélie penguins living on the island.

What does this mean? 1.5 million Adélie penguins are already half of the total number of penguins in the rest of the Antarctic Peninsula.

For modern society, this is tantamount to a "great geographical discovery."

To find other birds that have escaped the Antarctic, scientists have launched a MAPPPD project, also known as "Look for Penguins in Poop."

They hope to rely on the power of scientific researchers and combine it with satellite images to find more penguin populations.